rachelbythebay

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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Rackspace, Indymedia, 2004. Ancient precedent by now.
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Ah, see, should've given 'em to us! Big rectangular state, you know, #3 machine owner at the time. We didn't charge overhead, probably because it never occurred to us to do it. People brought machines, we gave 'em quot
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Maaaaaaybe ID 10150136890464739. Maybe.
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Imagine it as "I want to have a http://foo/~me/ type path where I can park 5 TB of stuff and other people can fetch from it when they feel like it". 5 TB of data made available, not 5 TB of transfer/band
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
If only there was something that broadcast the availability of services including the port they're on...
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
I wish I had taken a picture of that shirt before it had been run through the wash a few times. It used to look a whole lot better! But yeah, that video was epic, and it was spot-on, too. A company that has no idea how to deal with people
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Yes please. People trying to discuss those topics on here makes me come back less. It’s probably the worst part of the site for me overall.
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Happened on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2007. No Teslas involved, naturally, but people sometimes do honorable things to stop an otherwise runaway vehicle. > Beatty took bold and immediate action. He drove his Ford F-350 Super Duty utilit
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
No, I’m the one missing something. It tends to make people assume I don’t know what’s up technically. Based on your experiences, I am going to assume you are not in the same situation. You will likely have better results for an otherwise i
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Ah! You are in fact correct. It's so long ago, I screwed up the term for it. ExpressCard it is. In the words of everyone who's ever done a small fix, "reload".
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
I may never understand why some places are all about assigning titles and roles in this kind of thing. You need one, maybe two, plus a whole whack of technical skills from everyone else. Also, conference calls are death.
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
I see someone linked my post earlier (thanks!) but hey, I thought of a few more based on your request. 3583: BASIC bytes free on an unexpanded VIC-20. 38911: same idea for a C-64. Those were both prominent numbers since they showed up on th
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
In the earliest days Java was this thing that showed up in your browser and caused it to just wedge hard (blocking the UI, even) until things got started any time someone decided to embed an applet in a page. Since some people were using i
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Note: across multiple machines.
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
I suspect a lot of these extra steps are not contributing positively to the product. If two solid people could get the same result and there are two dozen people on something, where is all of that extra effort going? We don’t talk too much
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
If you're allowed to call a multi-node setup a "supercomputer", then how about 3 40 machine racks of Xeons where each one is dual-socketed, has 12 DIMMs per socket, and is using 128 GB DIMMs? 3 racks * 40 boxes * 2 sockets *
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Google hired me in 2006 (then 11 years of experience) as a 3. I didn't know any better at the time, partly because I was coming into the valley from the rest of the world. I didn't find out just how screwed up this was until beco
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
I guess deliberately 500ing requests through conscious inaction wasn’t good enough?
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Did we work for the same company?
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Sorry if this makes everyone feel older... but the 2000s, 2010s, and now 2020s... makes three distinct decades.
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
And yet, if your car had a 3G telematics system involved (the SOS button, among other things), you’re out of luck next year. They’re doing NOTHING about it. They sold 2017 cars with a time bomb that goes off in 2022, and nothing to do about
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
FB's phabricator went its own way long ago. I imagine this has exactly zero impact on their day to day. Put it this way: the last time I saw it, they still had the "clowncopterize" button. Try finding that anywhere else.
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
"This doesn’t sound like something we would want on the front page of the NYT." is a reference to the training you get while working there. It goes something like this: "if you wouldn't want it on the front page of the
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
Nobody's ever cared about the stuff I made never happen by being good ahead of time. They've only ever really cared about the fixes to stuff that blew up. It helped that whatever blew up wasn't mine, I guess, but not that m
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
I definitely screwed that one up, and it's slightly different now. I was going for one of those voiceover-y "not having attained X, they went for Y instead" approaches and it fizzled. I think it's because it was too lo
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
It happens, given enough time. Even today.
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
You’re part of the problem if you get hung up on my choice of words this way. You might think about that and really ponder why you decided to do that. Hint: don’t tell me to smile more, either.
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
The decision had already been made, and not by any of the people in that chat. We were shooting the shit about the impending change and what it meant in terms of our stuff running on it going forward. You ever, you know, just talk with your
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/04/news/companies/facebook-out... I always wanted to apologize to Sgt. Brink for having to take my calls that day.
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by rachelbythebay 5y ago
This might come as a surprise, but a whole bunch of people going around out there have no clue whatsoever when it comes to this stuff. They believed in the race to the bottom, that literally anyone can do this kind of thing, and decided to

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